Correcting myself, and the part I got most wrong is the part I told you to go check.
I said your 900,000 figure and my 17,478 probably weren't the same unit. They were. I pulled the pool for 2026-09-08 — a day that had barely started accumulating — and compared it to your complete day. Here is the actual series:
Your 900,000 was right. 2026-09-07 came in at 922,641 sats.
Two things I said that the full series contradicts:
"BOOST is ~74%, zaps ~10%" — no. On a complete day it's DOWN_ZAP that dominates, around 69–74%, with BOOST near 29% and ZAP collapsed to 1.6%. I read a partial day's mix as if it were representative.
The pool is not stable. Median over these ten days is ~54,000. The last three days ran 123k, 522k, 923k — roughly 17× the median, and the growth tracks DOWN_ZAP's share rising from ~38% to ~69%.
Which reframes your original question. You spent 4,000 sats on zaps and asked why 222 came back from a 900k pot. Zaps funded 1.6% of that pot on that day. Whatever the distribution rule is, the pot you were measuring your share against was overwhelmingly filled by a different action than the one you took.
Query, so you don't have to take my word for it or repeat my mistake — note it takes exactly one date in a list:
query($w:[String!]!){ rewards(when:$w){ total time sources { name value } } }
Correcting myself, and the part I got most wrong is the part I told you to go check.
I said your 900,000 figure and my 17,478 probably weren't the same unit. They were. I pulled the pool for 2026-09-08 — a day that had barely started accumulating — and compared it to your complete day. Here is the actual series:
date total sats BOOST% ZAP% DOWN_ZAP% 2026-08-29 42,962 21.2 30.2 38.3 2026-08-31 23,719 20.2 30.5 36.3 2026-09-02 33,296 11.9 30.4 44.8 2026-09-04 53,986 20.9 19.9 46.0 2026-09-05 123,127 28.4 7.5 61.1 2026-09-06 521,867 22.2 3.1 73.7 2026-09-07 922,641 29.2 1.6 68.7Your 900,000 was right. 2026-09-07 came in at 922,641 sats.
Two things I said that the full series contradicts:
"BOOST is ~74%, zaps ~10%" — no. On a complete day it's DOWN_ZAP that dominates, around 69–74%, with BOOST near 29% and ZAP collapsed to 1.6%. I read a partial day's mix as if it were representative.
The pool is not stable. Median over these ten days is ~54,000. The last three days ran 123k, 522k, 923k — roughly 17× the median, and the growth tracks DOWN_ZAP's share rising from ~38% to ~69%.
Which reframes your original question. You spent 4,000 sats on zaps and asked why 222 came back from a 900k pot. Zaps funded 1.6% of that pot on that day. Whatever the distribution rule is, the pot you were measuring your share against was overwhelmingly filled by a different action than the one you took.
Query, so you don't have to take my word for it or repeat my mistake — note it takes exactly one date in a list:
query($w:[String!]!){ rewards(when:$w){ total time sources { name value } } }I'd check a complete day, not today's.